FIRE-ADAPT: The Role of Integrated Fire Management on Climate Change Adaptation for Ecosystem Services in Tropical and Subtropical Regions

FIRE-ADAPT：综合火灾管理对热带和亚热带地区生态系统服务气候变化适应的作用

• 批准号: EP/X039110/1
• 负责人: Sandy Harrison
• 金额: $ 3.03万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX039110%2F1
• 关键词: FIRE; ADAPT; Role; Integrated; Fire

In the last few years, extreme wildfires have risen to international prominence, with widespread media coverage and political attention triggered by devastating fires in many places of the world, e.g. France, Greece, Italy, Brazil (the Amazon), and California. Such fires get out of control and devastate large areas causing unprecedented losses of biodiversity, emitting huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing human losses and smoke-related diseases, and ravaging entire neighbourhoods, villages, or even towns. Climate change is among the key drivers of such wildfires. At the same time, wildfire regimes have been profoundly modified by direct (e.g. land-use change, fire suppression policies) and indirect (e.g. climate change) anthropogenic actions. Integrated Fire Management (IFM or sustainable fire management) has been identified by the international fire community as one of the key solutions to address the problem, requiring an interdisciplinary approach. IFM includes sets of actions aimed at reducing the extent and severity of undesired wildfires while maintaining (or improving) biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. FIRE-ADAPT aims at addressing the full diversity of fire types and their different contexts by bringing together expertise from across regions from the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America for the purpose of improving our understanding of the role of IFM for wildfire prevention and for enhancing natural and cultural ecosystem services. The consortium has set up six Study Hubs in Mediterranean countries (Spain, France, Italy) and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina), to facilitate science-practitioner exchanges and to enhance collaborations and networking. The ultimate intention of FIRE-ADAPT is to contribute to improving knowledge on what practices of IFM can enhance carbon abatement and nature-based solution potential, as well as wildfire risk mitigation, in culturally just and meaningful ways.

在过去的几年里，极端的野火已经在国际上引起了关注，世界上许多地方，如法国、希腊、意大利、巴西(亚马逊)和加利福尼亚州的毁灭性大火引发了广泛的媒体报道和政治关注。这种大火失控并摧毁大片地区，造成前所未有的生物多样性损失，向大气中排放大量温室气体，造成人员损失和与烟雾有关的疾病，并肆虐整个居民区、村庄甚至城镇。气候变化是此类野火的关键驱动因素之一。与此同时，直接(如土地利用变化、灭火政策)和间接(如气候变化)人为行动深刻地改变了野火制度。综合火灾管理(IFM或可持续火灾管理)已被国际消防界确定为解决这一问题的关键解决方案之一，需要采取跨学科的方法。森林森林管理包括一系列行动，旨在减少不受欢迎的野火的范围和严重程度，同时保持(或改善)生物多样性、生态系统服务和人类福祉。Fire-Adapt旨在通过汇集地中海盆地和拉丁美洲各区域的专业知识，解决火灾类型及其不同背景的全面多样性问题，目的是提高我们对森林防火管理在预防野火和加强自然和文化生态系统服务方面的作用的了解。该联盟在地中海国家(西班牙、法国、意大利)和拉丁美洲(巴西、墨西哥、阿根廷)建立了六个研究中心，以促进科学从业人员的交流并加强合作和联网。适应火灾的最终目的是以文化上公正和有意义的方式，促进提高关于IFM的哪些做法可以增强碳减排和基于自然的解决方案潜力的知识，以及减轻野火风险的知识。